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Elon Musk’s Gifts to Web Scrapers (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

— Bright Data has long sold the data of all the major social media companies. 2015) (emphasis added). a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license”), and there is no allegation that it was corrupted, changed, or deleted. Facebook objected and sent a cease-and-desist letter. on all counts.

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Does the CFAA Help Airlines Control Their Distribution Channels?–RyanAir v. Booking (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

As usual in these types of cases, Ryanair sent cease-and-desist letters to Booking telling it to stop. Power Ventures was a platform that attempted to enable users to manage all their social media accounts from one platform. 2015 WL 1289984 at 4 (N.D. March 20, 2015). Needless to say, it didn’t stop.

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AN ARGUMENT FOR EMBRACING THE LEGALITY OF CROWDFUNDED GAME MODS

JIPL Online

Section 106 of the Copyright Act grants copyright holders an exclusive right to make or license derivative works based upon a previously copyrighted work. [11] 32] RuneLite HD only shut down in the first place due to a cease and desist letter from the publisher. 11] Physical mods of game hardware are considered derivative. [12]